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It's just as easy to be passionate and challenged working 32 - 40 hours a week as it is working 80 hours a week. The difference being one schedule will be main
by seekely 19y ago
It's just as easy to be passionate and challenged working 32 - 40 hours a week as it is working 80 hours a week. The difference being one schedule will be maintainable and balanced, while the other will lead to inevitable burnout. Burnout hurts. A lot.
- SwellJoe 19y ago"Burnout hurts. A lot." I think this is worth repeating every few days until it is thoroughly internalized. I burn out every once in a while...and when it happens, my productivity is shot...sometimes for weeks. I have to be careful to keep exercising every day, spend a reasonable amount of time watching movies or playing music or games and interacting with other people, or a weird sort of do-nothing depression kicks in. I don't even realize it while I'm working, until it's too late. I can even be enjoying what I'm doing, and having some satisfaction about results, but if I overdo it, something clicks and the next time I run into anything slightly frustrating/boring/repetitive it's all over and the burnout kicks in.
- michaelneale 19y ago"my productivity is shot...sometimes for weeks" - for me it has been months, sometimes years. I guess it could kind of turn you off for a whole career.